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Stephens County, Toccoa and smaller towns continue SPLOST 8 negotiations; no funding decisions made
Summary
County commissioners and municipal leaders spent the meeting negotiating how to split proceeds from a proposed SPLOST 8 sales tax, discussing a six-year intergovernmental agreement, level‑1 (debt) projects and study needs; no formal SPLOST vote was taken.
Stephens County commissioners and leaders from the City of Toccoa and the towns of Martin and Avalon discussed how to divide proceeds from a possible SPLOST 8 sales tax but did not adopt any funding allocations or final agreements.
The county presented two primary distribution approaches: (1) a six‑year intergovernmental agreement (IGA) that would allocate an agreed percentage to the cities up front, and (2) a default population‑distribution method under state law that would fund “level 1” projects (debt servicing for major county facilities) first and distribute remaining proceeds by population. County staff said the county’s working estimates for a six‑year IGA would produce about $36 million in SPLOST proceeds under a conservative 1% growth assumption and about $38 million under a 2% assumption;…
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